[quote=DaKatarn]Frankly, I find the concept of this character(Hellia) really cringe-worthy. It's the cut content that interests me the least. I'm absolutely not a fan of high fantasy multi combo characters because they're so cool( it's not, it's artificial).
"Look I'm a half fielon minotaur with blue dragon blood by his aunt Bety the half celeste vampire, it's so cool". It's more of a gimmick than anything else.
Er... she's not multi-combo anything? She's just a halfling. But you're saying...... halfling, but with the Lycanthropy curse as her 'unusual cross to bear' is more 'cringe-worthy' to you than:
- Once-powerful archmage, and also a Chosen, and also literal intimate lover of the goddess of magic, but now with a piece of the literal shadow-weave embedding in his chest, and conveniently reduced to first level for your adventures.
- Multiple centuries old vampire spawn, but also marked by a demonic pact as part of some powerful ascension ritual.
- Mysterious half-elven amnesia with secret powers who is also the favoured of multiple deities, and also bearer of special story-critical maguffin that is bound to her specifically and is the focus of extra-planar's hunting it.
- Favoured chamption of Zariel herself, tiefling who fought on the blood wars, and also has her heart replaced by a fiendish power source that threatens to burn her to death outside of avernus. Also reduced conveniently to level 1.
Compared to those things "I've been afflicted with the lycanthropy curse and am struggling with it" is pretty down to earth as far as ridiculous gimmicks go.
Or do you just find all the companions equally or more cringe-worthy than her concept? (In which case, you wouldn't be alone... but as it stands she'd fit right in as the most 'normal' person in that bunch)
I couldn't agree more. I find the high fantasy and "I'm the main character in the universe" aspect to be clearly too much.
"Hello, in the same ship there are Divine Chosen, Mystra's lover, the right-hand man of an archidiablesse" etc.
This also poses a problem in terms of gameplay and character levels.
This is undoubtedly the main flaw in BG3's (and Divinity's) narrative: we're not a character in a universe, but the universe serves and exists for our character.
On the other hand, I stand by my remark that there's a difference between a character with a cheated background "I'm friend with Elminster and I sleep with Mystra" and a character built solely around a rare/strange/unique combo.
And just because there's a (questionable) direction doesn't mean we have to keep sinking into it.
Honestly, isn't halfelin and loup-garou a bit wacky?
"Oh look, it's the sweet little race, but SURPRISE it's the Big Bad Wolf!!!!" I still think it's cringeworthy, especially as it's combined with an old lady bard from what I understand.
I wonder if this concept wasn't recycled for the murdered Sharess Caress character.
I forgive and tolerate overpowered characters worthy of a fanfiction, but characters who are deliberately Swiss army knives because they're too rare, and therefore inevitably cool and unexpected, I find ridiculous.
A halfling bard doesn't have to be a werewolf to be interesting, I don't like when the identity of a character is superfial like " you know she's a halfling old granny bard werewolf".
None of the cult characters in the Baldur series have this kind of weakness...But that doesn't stop them from being cult characters, like Jaheira, Viconia, Edwin, Kagain, Imoen, etc.
And I still prefer a good evil Dwarf like Kagain concerning the "small-sized quota"
